National Agriculture Disaster Management Plan (NADMP)

National Agriculture Disaster Management Plan (NADMP) seeks to guide the Union agriculture ministry in ensuring timely response to natural disasters like drought, floods and sudden crisis like COVID-19 pandemic. It identifies 34 hazards posing threats to the agriculture sector. These include heat waves, earthquakes, animal attacks, desertification, agricultural fires, cyclones and overdependence on chemicals. The NADMP may be implemented from this month.